St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-21

feats at the polls, close up his saloon
and his restaurant for want of business,
which had drifted off to more popular
competitors. His restaurant building,
standing on one of the most desirable
lots in the town, was closed for months,
while his wife took in day boarders, and
he got an occasional job on the railroad
at $l.40 day, or acting as special po-
liceman for the city at 50 day. This
special case of NJ. j. Mahon is not cited
because it is very different from hun
dreds OF others that are mentioned dur
ing the year in the different newspapers
of the land, but because it illustrates
the untimely end that may await men
even in new country who lose their
grip and are unable to make fresh
start, There is something pathetic in
the wall that aScends from the following
card, written by Mahon an hour or two
before he committed suicide-written,
be it remembered, by comparatively
young man in new country, where
chances are to be met with every day by
men who are able to turn up things for
themselves. Here it is:
A card to the public: Owing to the default
in my business and Indebtedness which can
not meet, conclude to leave this world. My
reasons are that every one deplSeS me because
| am not as used to be. l cannot live any
y
Please remember me as one that lost his
pocketbook and his friends. Without your
pocketbook you have got no friends. / never
stole or committed any depredations on any
OF my customers. l always tried to pay my
honest debts that / contracted, but it got too
thick for me and / could not pay because
others did not pay me-. Dead men tell no
tales do desplse to leave one of the best
families that ever was raised in Mandan, but
they are better without me. ] hate to say so,
but such is the fact. Please do not be unkind
| to my beloved wife, sister and children.
| When you see this card most likely l will be
in my grave. M. j. MAHON.
ANOTHER CASE.
The other case of suicide-or supposed
suicides that of William Cannon, the
+ wealthy postmaster of Fort A. Lincoln,
who suddenly disappeared a few weeks
ago. He left his office looking as it
usually looked. He had had recent
visit from a pOStOffice inspector, who
had found fault with some of Cannon's
methods, and in all probability he
brOOded over the reproofs he had re-
! ceived, and, walking out, jumped into
the rushing and muddy Missouri as it
passed by on its way to the sea. Here
was man worth thousands of dollars,
| director and large stakeholder in the
First National bank of Mandan. If he
| had been married man and had had a
sensible wife to converse with on the
subject of the inspectors reproofs, he
would in all probability have seen that
it was small matter, and would have
been alive to-day. Dakota can do a
great deal to brace up the faint-hearted
and the weakened, but there are some
people within its broad acres, even, who
will commit suicide and do other rash
acts in spite of the atmosphere and the
healing effects of the ozone. This is the
part of the world where weak minds get
spurred on to self-reliance; where men
who have reached point where they
have lost hope have felt their spirits re.
newed as with the strength of an eagles
wings, but there are cases that even Da
kOta cannot permanently cure.
The Crop Outlook.
ABERDEEN, Oak, May 2O.-The frost
of few days ago did no damage of any
amount to corn, and the wheat crop will
abundance of rain is looking fine.